.NET Core Contracts

.NET Core
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for .NET Core skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Core over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 240 204
Rank change year-on-year -30 -36 -39
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 377 680 1,264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 1.15% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.22% 4.94% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 510 1,047
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £456 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% +11.58%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 21
10th Percentile £47.61 £46.40 -
25th Percentile £54.85 £48.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% +71.43%
75th Percentile £85.00 £57.50 £62.15
90th Percentile £87.00 £65.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET Core is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,932 13,763 24,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.23% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,201 10,039 17,650
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Core.

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Core.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Core in the UK

.NET Core
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -8 346 £551 -8.13% 423
London -4 252 £575 -11.54% 118
Work from Home -34 109 £500 -13.04% 506
UK excluding London -39 94 £475 - 346
South West +46 38 £700 +67.16% 36
North of England -12 20 £400 -23.81% 112
South East -1 18 £470 -16.22% 56
North West -13 13 £475 -11.63% 70
Yorkshire +19 7 £300 -39.24% 29
Scotland +12 6 £375 -18.92% 20
Midlands 0 6 £538 +26.47% 67
Wales +11 4 £350 -16.42% 23
West Midlands +12 3 £400 -14.67% 36
East Midlands +6 3 £550 +29.41% 31
East of England +10 2 £475 - 32

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (7.16%) Confluence
2 24 (6.37%) CMS
3 9 (2.39%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (1.59%) NServiceBus
4 6 (1.59%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.80%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.80%) IIS
5 3 (0.80%) Kentico
5 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (1.86%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.27%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.27%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.27%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 226 (59.95%) Azure
2 127 (33.69%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (22.28%) AWS
4 76 (20.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 75 (19.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 40 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
6 40 (10.61%) Serverless
7 34 (9.02%) Entra ID
8 26 (6.90%) GCP
9 25 (6.63%) Azure Functions
10 21 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (5.04%) Azure Pipelines
12 17 (4.51%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (3.45%) GitHub
13 13 (3.45%) NuGet
13 13 (3.45%) PaaS
14 11 (2.92%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (2.65%) Azure Event Grid
15 10 (2.65%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.86%) FTP
1 7 (1.86%) HTTP
2 2 (0.53%) DHCP
2 2 (0.53%) DNS
2 2 (0.53%) Firewall
2 2 (0.53%) SSL
2 2 (0.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (39.52%) SQL Server
2 33 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (4.77%) Redis
5 17 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (4.24%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.86%) MySQL
8 7 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.33%) SQLite
11 4 (1.06%) Big Data
12 3 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.80%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.53%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.53%) RavenDB
14 1 (0.27%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 79 (20.95%) Git
2 34 (9.02%) JIRA
3 28 (7.43%) Bitbucket
3 28 (7.43%) TeamCity
4 27 (7.16%) NUnit
5 26 (6.90%) Jenkins
6 24 (6.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.71%) SpecFlow
8 13 (3.45%) Cucumber
9 12 (3.18%) Moq
9 12 (3.18%) Selenium
10 10 (2.65%) Visual Studio
11 9 (2.39%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (2.12%) Jasmine
12 8 (2.12%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.33%) Checkstyle
14 4 (1.06%) JMeter
14 4 (1.06%) webpack
15 3 (0.80%) Postman
15 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (18.04%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.24%) Finance
3 40 (10.61%) Back Office
4 38 (10.08%) Front Office
5 35 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (9.02%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.04%) Banking
8 18 (4.77%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.12%) Local Government
9 8 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.33%) Automotive
11 5 (1.33%) Law
12 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Electronics
13 2 (0.53%) Games
13 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 275 (72.94%) Developer
2 131 (34.75%) .NET Developer
3 76 (20.16%) Senior
4 75 (19.89%) C# Developer
5 64 (16.98%) Senior Developer
6 48 (12.73%) Software Engineer
7 42 (11.14%) C# .NET Developer
8 39 (10.34%) Backend Developer
9 38 (10.08%) Full Stack Developer
10 33 (8.75%) Lead
11 29 (7.69%) Azure Developer
12 28 (7.43%) Senior Backend Developer
13 25 (6.63%) .NET Software Engineer
14 21 (5.57%) Finance Manager
15 20 (5.31%) .NET Software Developer
16 19 (5.04%) Architect
16 19 (5.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 18 (4.77%) Full Stack .NET Developer
17 18 (4.77%) Software Developer
18 17 (4.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (100.00%) .NET
2 113 (29.97%) React
3 73 (19.36%) ASP.NET
4 63 (16.71%) .NET Framework
5 59 (15.65%) AngularJS
5 59 (15.65%) CSS
6 51 (13.53%) HTML
7 42 (11.14%) XML
8 34 (9.02%) REST
9 32 (8.49%) Blazor
10 31 (8.22%) RESTful
11 28 (7.43%) ASP.NET Web API
11 28 (7.43%) Entity Framework
12 27 (7.16%) jQuery
12 27 (7.16%) YAML
13 26 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
14 25 (6.63%) Kafka
15 19 (5.04%) ASP.NET MVC
16 15 (3.98%) Redux
16 15 (3.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.22%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.43%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (6.90%) Fixed Income
4 21 (5.57%) Equities
4 21 (5.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (5.57%) Hedge funds
5 17 (4.51%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.98%) Derivative
7 13 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.86%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.06%) Mobile Payment
13 3 (0.80%) Contactless
13 3 (0.80%) N-Tier
14 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (0.53%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.22%) Linux
2 15 (3.98%) Windows
3 4 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.53%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (48.54%) Agile
2 173 (45.89%) DevOps
3 118 (31.30%) CI/CD
4 115 (30.50%) OO
5 110 (29.18%) TDD
6 79 (20.95%) Microservices
7 77 (20.42%) Software Engineering
8 73 (19.36%) Full Stack Development
9 60 (15.92%) OOD
10 58 (15.38%) MVC
11 57 (15.12%) Scrum
12 56 (14.85%) Clean Code
13 54 (14.32%) API Management
14 50 (13.26%) Continuous Integration
15 48 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (11.41%) Test Automation
17 33 (8.75%) B2C
17 33 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
17 33 (8.75%) OOP
18 31 (8.22%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 293 (77.72%) C#
2 114 (30.24%) JavaScript
3 107 (28.38%) SQL
4 82 (21.75%) Bicep
5 69 (18.30%) PowerShell
6 68 (18.04%) TypeScript
7 61 (16.18%) Python
8 22 (5.84%) T-SQL
9 20 (5.31%) C++
9 20 (5.31%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.92%) Java
11 9 (2.39%) Go
12 7 (1.86%) Bash
13 3 (0.80%) C
13 3 (0.80%) Perl
14 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.27%) R
15 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.31%) Degree
4 14 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.53%) HND
9 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.63%) WCAG
3 23 (6.10%) QA
4 5 (1.33%) MiFID
5 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 73 (19.36%) Active Directory
2 31 (8.22%) Docker
3 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.53%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 39 (10.34%) Terraform
3 23 (6.10%) Ansible
3 23 (6.10%) PowerCLI
4 7 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.53%) Puppet
6 1 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 112 (29.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.16%) Oracle
3 24 (6.37%) Atlassian
4 22 (5.84%) Dell
4 22 (5.84%) HP
5 12 (3.18%) TIBCO
6 9 (2.39%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.86%) NEC
7 7 (1.86%) SAP
8 4 (1.06%) Optimizely
8 4 (1.06%) VMware
9 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.27%) Aareon
10 1 (0.27%) Capita
10 1 (0.27%) Cerner
10 1 (0.27%) Civica
10 1 (0.27%) Google
10 1 (0.27%) IBM
10 1 (0.27%) Nintex
10 1 (0.27%) Xamarin